The Alameda County Board of Supervisors met on July 15, 2026, for a full-day meeting that included morning proclamations, a public hearing on a historic tax-defaulted property transfer, and numerous votes on ordinances, contracts, and resolutions. The meeting also featured public comments on housing, transportation, and firearm safety, and concluded with multiple adjournments in memory of community members.
Good morning, everyone. I'd like to call to order the Tuesday, July 14th meeting. Regular meeting of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. Will the clerk please call the role to establish our quorum? Supervisor Marquez. Here. Supervisor Tam. Present. Supervisor Miley, excuse Supervisor Cortonado Bass. President Hauber. Present. We have a quorum. Would you all please rise if you can and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance? Thank you all. I will ask the clerk to go over arrangements for members of the public to participate in our meeting. We do recognize and value members of the public either in person or online. You can participate in person or online. If you're in person, we do ask you to fill out a speaker slip. And if you're online, the clerk will now provide speaking instructions. Detailed instructions are provided in the teleconferencing guidelines. A link to the document is included in today's agenda to view an automated translated transcript or listen to an automated translated audio of the meeting from English into multiple other languages. Please utilize the worldly link in today's agenda or the QR codes posted throughout the room and select your preferred language from the drop-down menu. If you are joining the meeting using a computer, use the button at the bottom of your screen to raise your hand to request to speak. When called to speak, please unmute your microphone and state your name. If you are calling in, Dal Star 9 to raise your hand to speak when you're called to speak, the host will enable you. If you decide not to speak, notify the clerk when your call is unmuted, or you may simply hang up and dial back into the meeting. When called, you will have two minutes to speak. Please limit your remarks to the time allocated. Public comment will generally alternate between in-person and online speakers as determined by the president of the board and subject to overall time limits. In the event of technical difficulties, disrupt the Zoom webinar, the meeting may be recessed and reconvened via Microsoft Teams. Detailed instructions are provided in the teleconferencing guidelines. Thank you. Thank you very much. Our next item is uh supervisors' remarks. I'll ask Supervisor Fortunato Bass. Thank you, President Halbert. Um, I wanted to invite everyone to go uh to join us at the next Alameda County Together for All Act for All Ad hoc committee meeting. It's on Thursday, July 16 at 3 p.m. Uh, we will have a number of updates on immigration, and it is very timely given the ongoing immigration enforcement that's happening at home in our county. Um, and I also wanted to recognize that just in the past few weeks, there have been two people who have who have been killed at the hands of immigration enforcement in Bidford, Maine. Yuan Sebastian uh Guerrero and then Houston, Texas, Lorenzo Salgado, Arujo. Um, so we look forward to sharing a number of items. The first will be an update on what's happening at the state and federal levels regarding the immigration landscape, and we'll hear from the attorney, the state attorney general's office as well as uh the immigrant legal resource center. Secondly, we'll have an update on the implementation of our um ice-free zones policy and our response plan from the county administrator. There's uh signs that have been put up in multiple buildings as well as protocols to ensure that our staff has more information to respond as needed. And then thirdly, we'll have an update from the three coalitions that uh we are supporting who are serving the immigrant and refugee community. Thank you. Thank you, Supervisor Marquez. Supervisor Tam, would you care to go first? Go ahead.